[Cryptography] Super-computer project wanted

[Henry Baker]

At 10:00 AM 7/13/2015, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>I'm doing an online course in programming super-computers (think: massively parallel teraflops!) and we are invited to submit a proposal for a sort of post-grad project (there is no guarantee that it will be accepted, as machine time is scarce).
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>Suggestions include financial derivatives (but I'm not interested in trading), blockchains, etc.
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>And Bitcoin mining is not worth the electricity...
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>So, is there anything that could benefit from a few parallel teraflops here and there?

Full GR (General Relativity) movies, a la "Interstellar".

The problem with a lot of GR stuff is that it isn't easy to visualize, so true GR movies would help enormously in teaching the concepts of GR.

You should be able to get access to the SW from the folks at Caltech.

A suggestion: looking for cyclic (at least apparently cyclic, to within the error of the numerical simulations) solutions of 3-body problem in GR.

Crypto content: very high precision chaotic computations can be used for pseudorandom number generators.